Buspar is definitely not a placebo. It knocked me out so bad I couldn't get out of bed and as soon as I stopped taking it I had a huge amount of energy come back. Xanax on the other hand is a benzo...
Most meds are bad, in my opinion. WHile most here suggest them there are a lot of people who think the meds are flat evil and do no good. That doctor sounds like one of the few doctors who has read...
All I'll say is this... I joined another site where there are literally thousands of people who joined solely to talk about getting off of meds such as clonazepam (benzos). I'm on clonazepam and I...
Does anyone know what doctors usually recommend as far as how gradually to stop klonopin/clonazepam? I have taken it for three years straight, but only 0.5 mg per day. I'm hoping that's so low that I...
I don't know what to think anymroe. I had bad dreams and violent images come in my mind and I started panicking. Some people have siad it's normal to think horrible things when you have anxiety or...
I have had a million. I usually don't panic though except in recent months the left side of my head kept feeling weird and I woke up with it numb twice. Like when your leg is asleep... my left side...
Was that first part to me or the person who posted above me? Because I haven't mentioned feelings for a therapist in another topic that I recall. I was attracted to one though, but didn't obsess or...
Most people tell me things such as "just do it" as far as feeling better or getting through it and no matter how many times they're told that their level of anxiety may not be as strong as mine they...
Well I don't have any advice, but just letting you know I read it. I don't understand how people can do certain things either, but apparently either they don't think of it as hurtful to someone else...
If she gets help from a therapist then congrats to her because I've sure never felt like any I've gone to knew anything....
yeah mogli that's one reason I keep worrying I won't stay feeling good for a long period of time because I know when I don't get enough sleep i feel absolutely terrible and it doesn't feel like I can...
I've been having acid reflux for a lot of years and a efw years back they found a hiatal hernia in me too, but they did nothing about it anyway so i don't know what good it was for them to find it......
It was not only because I was out though. It was socializing with those I care about. If I go outside here where I'm at I may say hi toa couple peoople, but I don'thave conversations, I don't make...
I'm really depressed today. I wake up with nothing to do and I'm just so lonely. That's the double edged sword of visiting my parents is I feel better and then when I go home I then realize I have...
Thanks. I wish you weren't going through what you have to also. :( I actually did go walk one direction and go around streets to end up back at my apartment from the other end. So it was a 30 minute...
Well that's like today... I feel good right now, but I am already bored and that's not good for me. I either end up worrying or obsessing over something stupid. And I don't really feel like getting...
I feel like I "must" succeed at some point because I don't have much choice really. So I just keep hoping when I do try to get a job I'm really ready for it where I don't have to keep trying...
Wow now I am very anxious after noticing how much info about me can be found. Just by knowing oen of my email addresses someone can find topics I've made on another anxiety site with personal info in...
It definitely helps that people have been nice to me here. but I've been online so many hours for 15 years that it's hard to even think straight about it and appreciate it as much as if it were in...
I tried lexapro once and it had less side effects than celexa for me, but I never stuck with any of them long because they all had more side effects than I could deal with. Suppsoedly elxapro does...
Thanks. :) Well others get annoyed with me easily. Especially online. As far as others are concerned I need to learn to manage anger better. That and me constantly complaining about my issues is what...
Thanks, Lyn. I also feel stronger due to what I've been through, but after a while I'm ready to go back to not going through it. I feel like hey I've learned enough for now I wish I would feel good....
I'm not even sure what my anxiety is as far as towards jobs. I guess social anxiety must be most of it. I don't "think" I'm afraid of failing. Maybe my anxiety is just for no other reason than I have...
That sucks you've had to go through so much. It's depressing that people have to have all these various things happen. And then on my end I feel like I should be happy because I have far less serious...
Well what sucks is my degree would only egt me a tv job (sure not trying that) or military job (sure not trying that). So if I do want a job in it I have to take several more high level math classes...
Anyone ever have anxiety about getting a job and then actually went and did get the job and have been able to handle it? I have never had a job and sometimes I feel like I could never handle one. But...
btwm as an fyi I was just feeling perfect a little while ago and had not yet taken the klonopin. So it had been 24 hours since I took it and I suddenly felt great. But like I said I tend to feel...
Well I hope something ends up helpingthe neuropathy. Most of these things... nobody can know how it is unless they have it themselves. With my mom I try to not even think about it because it's...
Yeah, but as far as the med it comes down to is it helping me with anything. I'm having a lot of anxiety lately which is the only thing klonopin can even help so if I'm taking a med, still having...
Now I took an extra klonopin yesterday and today I feel kind of angry, it seems. That's why I say it's hard to tell if meds help or hurt because when you start thinking various ways you can't assume...
That's disappointing you've had to go through so much and you should remember how big of a deal it is that you've still got through it the best you can though! That's one thing that keeps the anxiety...
Lyn have you felt much help for neuropathy? My mom has been struggling with that. kitt sorry you're having a bad day. I just hope we get through things better as time goes by. I don't want to feel...
Well, but accepting it means I know I will emotioanlly hurt them because if I'm feeling so nervous about them and scared about it then I'm obviously more one dge and they can even ask me a normal...
No, Lyn. I just take klonopin for anxiety and I remember a listed side effect for that is depression so it makes it even harder to ever figure out whether the med is helping or hurting. For instance...
Recently I did hug her on several occasions since I was moving out. Today I feel so depressed I don't know what to do. It makes me feel like giving up. I feel like I have expended so much energy...
Kitt, you know what's weird is although I do fear conflict and rejection I'ms till stubborn enough to do what I want in most cases. So many would say I'm selfish probably. i did what I wanted to do...
yeah all therapists I went to just never helped. I went to at least 5 different ones. None ever gave me any sort of exercises to do or seemed to use CBT exactly as far as the anxiety/depression goes....
Has anyone actually gone from needing others' approval to being able to stop doing it? I wonder what some methods may be... I know self confidence is the key, but how to get there is obviously the...
I think it's pretty common. And I fear it a lot if I'm already depressed over something else or if I watch the news too often. Then somehow I feel better and then I don't think about it for a while....
Sometimes I just get sick of even thinking about it. It's frustrating because of how I have pulled myself out each time and yet somehow I still eventually am pulled down by the same things. Once I'm...
Thanks, I'll check that out. I've tried st. john's wort in the past and I was never sure if it helped or not. When I got out my depression at that particular time I was using it so it COULD have been...
Thanks for the responses and encouragement. I'm a man. I think sometimes that makes me even more frustrated when statistics show a lot more women suffer from it than men. Of course some think men may...
Well I'm sure many people here know the feeling of being sick of anxiety lasting day after day, but seriously lately it's been so stressful. I used to post a lot on another site and they randomly...